8.3.1 - Profiling User-Space Applications
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Practice Questions
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What is the primary purpose of profiling in user-space applications?
💡 Hint: Think about performance improvement.
Name one tool used for profiling user-space applications.
💡 Hint: Recall the tools we discussed.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the main purpose of using gprof?
💡 Hint: Think about its role in profiling.
True or False: perf can only be used for profiling user-space applications.
💡 Hint: Recall the diverse capabilities of perf.
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Challenge Problems
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You have an application developed in C that runs slowly. Describe the steps you would take using gprof to diagnose performance issues.
💡 Hint: Focus on how to prepare and analyze the data.
After profiling your application using perf, you noticed a high number of cache misses. What optimizations could you implement to mitigate this issue?
💡 Hint: Think about data management and accessing patterns in your code.
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